News for Men’s basketball

For the likes of Nancy Stevens and Mike Cavanaugh, these are heady times at UConn. Stevens’ field hockey team went 23-0 on its way to a fifth national title. Cavanaugh’s men’s hockey team played in the quarterfinal round of the…

Some possible candidates to replace Kevin Ollie as UConn coach: 1. Dan Hurley: The Rhode Island coach has turned the Rams around and is vastly familiar with the recruiting grounds in the Northeast, particularly New York. And he’s just 45,…

Shortly after the UConn men’s season came to an end Thursday in the form of an 80-73 loss to SMU in the first round of the AAC tournament, coach Kevin Ollie was asked if he would have done anything differently….

The news was not unexpected. The timing was quick, but that, too, was hardly startling. No reason to let the decision linger, and certainly not to let it linger into the start of the NCAA women’s tournament in Storrs later…

One of the many things the UConn men have been searching for is something resembling positive momentum. For too long, it seemed all of the momentum was rolling in the wrong direction. They want nothing more than to get that…

STORRS At the risk of sounding sappy, these guys deserved this. They deserved to hit a high note in a season full of low notes. UConn men’s basketball hasn’t been good this year and has largely been quite the opposite,…

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) – Next month’s NIT games will use experimental rules that include an extended 3-point line, a wider free-throw lane and 10-minute quarters instead of 20-minute halves. The NCAA announced the changes Tuesday. The 3-point arc will move to…

College basketball has some great rivalries. Kentucky and Louisville have a heated one. So do Xavier and Cincinnati. Arizona-Arizona State and Kansas-Kansas State don’t like each other much, either. This week features not only what many consider to be the…

HIGHLAND HEIGHTS, Ky. (AP) – The Bearcats had three days to stew, and it showed when they took the court. Gary Clark scored 10 of his 17 points during Cincinnati’s decisive opening spurt, and the 11th-ranked Bearcats shook off consecutive…

Former Louisville coach Rick Pitino believes the school should take legal action against the NCAA after the governing body nullified the Cardinals of the 2013 men’s basketball title. Pitino, speaking from his attorney’s offices in New York, said that the…

HARTFORD – It’s bad enough that UConn has to worry about opponents given that it has spent much of this season fighting itself. That standoff reached numbing proportions Thursday night at the XL Center. UConn saw a nine-point halftime lead…

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) – As Wichita State senior Rashard Kelly stood with the ball in the opening minutes, the result of a second offensive rebound on the possession, a sold-out crowd rose to its feet and thundered applause. The fans…

STORRS – UConn coach Kevin Ollie wasn’t in a mood to apologize, nor was he in a mood to be jubilant. The Huskies won Wednesday night, barely slipping past AAC cellar dweller South Florida at Gampel Pavilion, 68-65. The win…

STORRS — It began with those gathered in Gampel Pavilion waving white towels provided by the marketing department that resulted in an unintended metaphor. It ended with a Jalen Adams layup attempt wedged between the rim and the backboard. The symbolism…

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — B.J. Taylor is making up for lost time. After missing the first 16 games of the season with a broken foot, Taylor entered averaging a team-high 13.8 points in his first four games back for UCF….

UConn is trying desperately to obtain some footing in the AAC. Just as it is doing so, an NCAA investigation hangs in the air. It’s another in a long line of things the Huskies have been trying to overcome. UConn…

STORRS – Christian Vital clearly sees the parallels. In fact, the UConn sophomore guard was rather precise in his recollection of things in regards to this year’s freshmen. “I was just in their shoes last season,” Vital said. “It was…

HARTFORD – Jay Wright waxed poetic upon his return to the XL Center, talking about memories of great battles between Villanova and UConn. Saturday’s game will not be stored in the memory banks. The Huskies are miles away from what…

HARTFORD — All you really need to know about the state of the UConn men’s program is that results this season are now on a par with stuff that happened while a gent named Burr Carlson was coach. Get that? Burr…

Duke was the ACC’s preseason favorite and North Carolina the defending national champion. The conference leader and highest-ranked team so far: Virginia. Picked to finish sixth in the ACC preseason poll, the Cavaliers (15-1, 4-0) have been the conference’s most…

STORRS – Before the game, Christian Vital had a bit of a dust-up with some UCF players. After the game, Vital had a bit of a dust-up with some UCF players. In between, UConn put together the kind of effort…

HARTFORD – Kevin Ollie spoke an obvious truth Saturday afternoon when he said his UConn team is “still forming.” The Huskies have a packing crate of new players still with the bubble wrap intact. Wichita State guard Austin Reaves voiced…

HARTFORD – UConn isn’t about to become Syracuse on the defensive end of the basketball court. It is, however, looking more and more different on that side of things. UConn coach Kevin Ollie employed zone defense for most of Saturday’s…

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